h, so it was jealousy?”
Parker had a look of sudden realization.
He tore up that love letter, then grabbed me.
I struggled: “I didn’t tell on you.”
He raised an eyebrow: “Now there’s something more important than that.”
Parker took the scissors from the desk and cut off a lock of my hair:
“Zoe, I’d rather date a dog than you.”
10
Parker used that lock of my hair to make amends with the school beauty.
But this couldn’t change his father’s decision to transfer him to another school.
On the day Parker left, the school beauty cried for a long time.
I thought they would be together forever.
But it didn’t take long for the school beauty to receive photos of Parker being intimate with other girls.
And my lock of hair, along with the missing part of my sideburns, were all forgotten.
11
The school beauty’s grades later plummeted.
She begged me to help her arrange a meeting with Parker, just once, she wanted to see him.
